Guest - Thanks. I do get great comfort from having seen the Angel, because I know I have help out there at all times. And I mean, powerful help. And so does everyone else, because help is not restricted to a chosen few.

There's no particular reason why you should believe in Angels if you haven't actually seen one...AND by the same token...there's no particular reason why you should not believe in them either. The thing that upsets me is the people who automatically disbelieve in such things merely on principle, because that fits their world-view or their emotional security blanket.

Ghosts? I haven't seen any, except for the ghost of a cat. My mother and I saw that one the day after the cat had died. It looked just like the cat normally did, and it meowed, and then it went into the bushes. We tried to find it, and couldn't. My mother got my father to dig up the grave later that day, and the cat's body was still in the grave. Accordingly, yes, I think we saw the ghost of that cat.

My father, who is an engineer, and who is totally disinclined toward anything spiritual...saw the ghost of his dead brother, Harry, a few months after the brother's death. It gave him quite a shock, needless to say. He was driving down to Toronto, alone, in the van, and suddenly realized he wasn't alone. Harry had spontaneously appeared, sitting in the passenger seat. My father looked at him and said, "What the hell are you doing here?" (They had never gotten along well...) Harry glared at him and said, "Is the money flowing to my children?" (my father was executor of the will). "The money isn't flowing anywhere yet," said my father, "It's all tied up with the damned lawyers for another couple of months." Harry gave me father one more dirty look, and vanished into thin air.

My father told my mother and me about it after he returned from Toronto. He said that "being dead did not seem to have improved Harry's nature any".

Now the interesting thing is, the experience did not prompt my father to change his lifelong attitude toward spiritual matters, which is: he has no interest in such things at all. None. Nada. If it ain't tactile and you can't measure it with a protractor and make money with it, he ain't interested. Go figure.